BusinessObjects Intelligent Search Features

Leverage Exisiting Authentication

Leverages existing authentication and password mechanisms allowing you to search all information silos at once: web, subscription, and internal.

Sophisticated Extraction

Sophisticated extraction analyzes the full text of documents (not just summaries) clustering results by people, places, organizations, concepts, and more.

Tracking and Alerts

Automatically tracks and alerts you of changes to a web page, document of interest, or new information.

Add New Sources

Supports the addition of new search sources through custom brokers or through Global Services.

Query Translation

Automatically translates queries into multiple source-specific query languages.

Ranking and Re-Ranking

Re-ranks all documents for relevance and combines duplicate results.

"More Like This" Search

Just highlight an individual result and the system will automatically find other similar results.

Store and Filter

• Results can be sorted and filtered by relevance, date, source, category or other criteria
• Advanced filtering identifies the most relevant themes, people, organizations, places, product names, & other information

Keyword Summaries

Keyword-in-context summaries augmented by "top mentions" and categories derived from the full-text of search results.

Myriad Entity Types

More than 30 entity types are available out-of-the-box.

Clustering

• Customize the system to cluster by industry-standard or company-specific taxonomies
• Customize clustering for custom list-based or pattern-based entities, like project code names, terrorist names, gene sequences, and SKUs